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You need them in some scenarios. For example, lots of car rental companies refuse to take anything but a physical card.

AFAIK, Galois is 100% employee owned: https://www.galois.com/life-at-galois I know people working both at Galois and Mondragón, and they seem to be relatively similar in spirit.

> You can't formally verify your application works correctly under transient network error conditions if you never thought about what your application should do under those conditi…

I agree with the core thesis that LLMs + theorem provers might make formal methods cheap enough to be practical in software development. The biggest issue was always cost. But ther…

Yeah, I heard some horror stories a few years back. Trustpilot and Google reviews had some interesting cases.

Gatwick long-term parking is not expensive if you book in advance. You need to take a slow bus shuttle to the terminal, but it's never more than 15-20 min including waiting time. I…

It's sadly becoming harder. I've been playing that game for quite long and hope to stick to web apps, but still. Some banks limit functionality on web apps, which is annoying. More…

And he effectively killed the last EU platform. Will we ever see another one? I miss these simpler times when devices were made to serve users, and not the other way round.

I think this is the real problem. I am sympathetic towards automated code synthesis. But without formal verification and a human reviewing specifications to ensure alignment, I thi…

Exactly, and it sold really well despite that. It was Kafkaesque, discontinuing a product before release.

Discussed in HN many times, but worth restating once more. The N9 was fantastic. A joy to use, and in many ways the best design, both hardware and software, I've ever handled. Ever…

Yes, this is why garden leaves are popular in quant finance. You get paid for about a year to do nothing so that the trade secrets from your firm (trading strategies) expire. That'…

I have never said they always act as a bloc, but their industry has a strong component of long-term strategic government planning behind them.

I think it's a deliberate business strategy of commoditization of their complement. China acts like an entire bloc, not as single companies, and they want to monetize hardware.

It is true that Lean has seen relatively little adoption in software verification compared to e.g. Isabelle and Rocq (previously Coq). Even Agda has had more traction in that domai…

SailfishOS can run lots of banking apps with an Android emulation layer. It's not perfect, but far from useless. Some use it as a daily driver. Depending on your country, it can be…

Keep in mind vitamin D is really, among other things, an immune signaling molecule. So, we know the mechanism, and it's quite plausible that supplementation works. In other words, …

I am not sure I agree we've yet to see any other architecture that competes with a large transformer. For example, in long-range tasks such as those related to genome prediction, s…

I agree. I also think it's about the hardware and, obviously, recognizing AD as the fundamental primitive. Particular architectures don't matter so much yet. It's quite possible th…

I agree. The US Army already recognized this problem and developed the Munson last before WWI. Some mid and high-end footwear brands produce boots with Munson or Munson-like lasts.…

I would say that lots of interesting things are happening in biotech, and these things are slowly building critical mass, similar to what happened in computer hardware during the p…

It is difficult. I think the key is that Spain has a large corps of civil engineers working for the government. They plan all projects with great detail and then oversee their exec…

True, also very precarious and unstable. It is now common not to get a long-term contract until your 40s. Given the massive pay gap with industry and scarce funding, it's natural l…